Jeremy Rifkin, the founder of the ‘Foundation on Economic Trends’, is an economic and social theorist, advisor to sovereign nations (China, France et al) and an overall big thinker that looks to the future with the benefit of a profound knowledge of the past. While most of us toil in our day – to – day routines struggling to manage the changes in our immediate world, Rifkin is charting a path for his vision of future society. In his most recent work, Rifkin associates crowdfunding and peer to peer lending as factors in his prognosis of our future economic system.